Intertrust
Intellectual Property
Since its founding in
1990, Intertrust Technologies Corporation has invented and defined
key elements of trusted computing, including a wide range
of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies that enable
secure management of digital processes and information.
Intertrust has an intellectual property group combining
its legal, technology, and IP analysis and market modeling
experts. This group is committed to the development, strategic
licensing, and monetization of the company's e-commerce
inventions.
Intertrust patents describe many aspects of the basic
infrastructure necessary for protecting and managing digital
media, enterprise trusted computing, and next-generation
distributed computing platforms. The following is a partial
list of Intertrust patents relating to digital media, web
services, commerce automation, and distributed trusted
document management.
Management of web services: Protecting
and managing digital applications and content wherever
they travel, reside, or are used.
Executable software integrity: Enabling
an operating system to authenticate software components
and allowing them to run based on adherence to integrity
and reliability rules.
Credentials/driver signing: Enabling
platform operating systems to authenticate the integrity
of executables, such as device driver software to ensure
proper driver behavior.
Supply chain management through independent delivery
of rules: Allowing enterprises to implement
and enforce rules, or policies, relating to digital information
access and use across widely distributed computing environments;
allowing enterprises to change policies for already delivered
digital information by delivering new policies; enabling
secure peer-to-peer and pass-along sharing of information
among users in accordance with specified policies.
Managing media content or enterprise information: Enabling
companies or content publishers to implement and enforce
usage policies wherever content, company information, or
applications travel - both inside and across
firewalls and virtual private networks.
Enterprise-to-enterprise transactions: Enabling
companies to automate enterprise transactions according
to enterprise policies, including the authorization, purchasing,
auditing, reporting, and clearing of supplies and inventory.
Compliance: Secure, automated auditing
and reporting of transaction or use data that is based
on enterprise policies and regulatory compliance requirements.
Portability of rules: Allowing users
to loan or move content to other users or other machines
enabling for example enterprise portals allowing employees
to acquire access rights to use enterprise information
at multiple locations.
Nested policies within a single item: Allowing
users to associate multiple rule sets with different portions
of information, such as a medical record having certain
portions editable by a doctor, and different portions editable
by administrators.
Silicon protective measures: Technologies
for hardware security tamper resistance as an integrated
component of a distributed trusted computing network.
Note that the descriptions of Intertrust patents and other
intellectual property herein are intended to provide illustrative,
non-exhaustive examples of some of the areas to which the
patents and applications are currently believed to pertain,
and is not intended for use in a legal proceeding to interpret
or limit the scope or meaning of the patents or their claims,
or indicate that an Intertrust patent claim(s) is materially
required to perform or implement any of the preceding listed
items.
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